Alex Verstraeten wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to write a small TCP Server in Python to make an IMAP Proxy for
>> post-processing client requests.
>>
>> It is not long either complicated but needs to be very robust so...
>> maybe someone here has already done such a thing I can use or know where
>> i can get it ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tarek
>>
>>
> I wrote one with twisted.. it's quite easy and minimal..
> you can start hooking stuff to it, I only use "dataReceived"
> as I only need to watch what cmds are imap client sending.
>
> from twisted.protocols.portforward import ProxyFactory
> from twisted.protocols.portforward import ProxyClientFactory
> from twisted.protocols.portforward import ProxyClient
> from twisted.protocols.portforward import ProxyServer
> from twisted.internet import reactor
>
> class PS(ProxyServer):
> def dataReceived(self, data):
> print "PS->dataReceived(%s)" %repr(data)
> ProxyServer.dataReceived(self, data)
> pfactory = ProxyFactory('192.168.1.1',143)
> pfactory.protocol = PS
>
> reactor.listenTCP(143, pfactory)
> reactor.run()
>
> this will bind to port 143 and proxy all requests to the real imap
> server at 192.168.1.1, while printing the commands being sent to stdout.
> Here, my proxy runs on different box than imap server... if you need
> to put both of them on same box you'll need to change the port number
> of , either imap server, or imap proxy.
>
> well..
> hope it helps
Great thank you, it will help me for sure.
Tarek
>
>
> Alex
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